Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

So, here's a huge bombshell too, right?

Marble Hornets is NON-CANON to the Slenderverse and the Original Mythos. It takes place in its own universe entitled the THAC/FWANverse. The works of the Slenderverse and the Original Mythos exist only as fiction in the Marble Hornets universe.

And that, kids, is why the Operator is not the Slender Man.

Anyways, what can I say that hasn't already been said? This movie is fucking trite. That's all, really. However, I must respect it as it is. It's canon to Marble Hornets. Not just because it is, but because it was posed as a serious piece of art and I make my promise to my readers that nothing will be spoken of in a subjective light (unless I'm joking). EDIT 28.10.2019: I take this back, this is my blog and I will pose everything however I wish to pose it although I do intend to keep everything understandable.

So here's the plot (written by "Fobarimperius" on the Slender Man Wiki, credit to them):

The movie starts with some man and a woman holding a camera apparently fleeing through the woods. The girl hits the button to lock the car, indicating they are extremely close to their vehicle. The two try to run, however shortly into the dash, the girl stops when it occurs to her that the guy, named Eli, is apparently gone. The girl, Jamie, looks for him, but spots the Operator. She reaches the car and locks herself inside, starting the car. Eli, who seems to be blankly standing in front of the car, doesn't respond as Jamie begs him to get into the car. Eli rushes to the driver door, and bashes his head through the glass window, grappling Jamie out of the car and bringing her to the ground. A loud crack is heard which implies Jamie was killed, and the tape abruptly cuts.

Milo is a member of a news reporting team, and has a crush on his one-night stand with his coworker Sara. Charlie, an Ivy League graduate, has just transferred to the team, upsetting Milo and his chances at getting Sara. The three are given the assignment of investigating the mysterious disappearance of a man named Dan. Milo is tasked with investigating a series of Mini-DVR tapes that Dan shot. Many are simply birthday tapes or other such filming, however after some analysis, Milo begins findings images of an odd man in the tapes.

He brings this up to both Sara and Charlie, who seem interested and confused at the situation, and ask Milo to delve into the tapes. Milo continues doing so, but begins to have an odd power outage. Eventually Milo finds the Operator Symbol engraved into his neck. The situation becomes even more dangerous when the suited man appears in his backyard. At first Milo demands him to leave, however this man teleports closer to Milo, covering nearly thirty feet in an instant, and Milo flees to safety into his own house.

He eventually flees to Sara's home, interrupting her and a shirtless Charlie, which brings Charlie to anger. Charlie eventually forces a screaming Milo out of the house, Sara not trying to argue against it. Milo refuses to go home, and decides to sleep in his car. He attempts to call the police, but decides against it.

The following day, he goes home and finds his dog, Marlo, running about. He thinks someone is in the kitchen, but checks the upstairs bedroom on a hunch and finds Charlie. Charlie angrily confronts Milo over the months of footage of Sara doing things like shopping, going to work, and leaving her house. Sara comes in, disgusted by what she sees, however Milo begins to panic. Charlie refuses to let him touch a camera, and Milo then tells him to grab the camera and look around. Charlie finds the closet door flying open, and The Operator rushes him. Charlie panics, drops the camera, and all three take off from the house. The two continue on their journey, and all three get marked as they run, gradually losing sleep and becoming highly irritable. While at a hotel, they find that Sara is popping pills. Milo, enraged, thrashes through her belongings. Charlie, angry Milo is throwing him aside and pushing Sarah, proceeds to knock Milo down and kick him repeatedly, before trying to finish him off with a microwave. He drops it as the door flies open, indicating The Operator had appeared. The argument is forgotten, and they continue on. Eventually, at Sarah and Charlie's suggestion, they reluctantly shut the cameras off, hoping that this will make the monster chasing them simply give up. The next morning, they turn the camera on to find that Marlo is dead, having apparently been killed somehow in his sleep, and an Operator Symbol inside his car. Milo is angry at Charlie and Sarah for having them shut off the cameras, and quickly concludes The Operator got inside the car.

The three go on the run, trying to escape it. Their goal is to discover what happened to Dan and his family. Since there was no clue of where they went in the tapes, however Charlie's informant manages to let him know that Dan used his money to purchase a home in a new location. The three travel to this spot, and find the house has been burnt down. They locate a storm shelter with electricity and a working camera feed which apparently caught everything going on in the house. They find Dan smothered his daughter, and then choked his wife to death in a stupor... or at least it seemed. His wife, who he failed to properly choke and had only passed out, surprises the oddly behaving Dan, and slams into him on the staircase. Dan falls to his death on the stairs, and his wife, clearly stricken with grief, grabs a red can filled with some kind of fuel, and proceeds to burn the house down, while sitting in the living room clutching her daughters teddy bear rabbit.

Upset that that was all they could find, they go to the local sheriff, who informs them that Dan's wife survived the fire, and that she is locked up in an asylum after murdering her family. The three head straight there and contact the wife, who proceeds to calmly inform them that she believes the monster came into their life because Dan became interested in it. The interview turns violent when she realizes Sara has a mark on her arm. Sara, Milo and Charlie are forced to leave while medical staff restrain Sara and escort the three out.

Completely out of options, they decide to make a last stand in a cabin. They set the whole place up with cameras, and Charlie suggests, at this point, that the three of them separate and never meet back up. Since Dan killed his daughter, it shows that they are a danger to each other. Milo interrupts them when he notes that the camera picked up a detail he missed at the hospital: the wife's mark was gone. 

The crew are then attacked by The Operator, who flings the back door open and walks inside. Milo grabs a rope and begins making a noose quickly, throws it over the side, and proceeds to kill himself, apparently believing that since he was the source of both Sara and Charlie's attacks. Now dead, it seems that The Operator has given up and walked away, leaving Charlie and Sara. Their joy is shortened when they find the corpse of Milo rising from the ground. Milo's corpse grabs a pipe, and proceeds to knock Charlie down. He then beats Charlie to death, and follows after Sara, who has already fled into the woods. Sara feebly tries to escape The Operator, who is clearly chasing her all over the forest, and is eventually knocked over by Milo. Moments later, Milo tosses her back into the house with enough force for her to fly almost ten feet. She crawls desperately, too injured to stand and run, and begs Milo to stop. Milo hits her in the head with the pipe, killing her, and then falls to the floor, his eyes solid white. Moments later, The Operator appears and seems to loop his movements. He then vanishes, and the pupils return to Milo's eyes. 

The movie ends with Dan and his wife leaving a sale, where Dan has purchased a camera with a "college project tape" inside, which likely was the introduction to the movie.






So that's it. Really. That's it. What more would you expect out of a Hollywood production of anything? The only tie to Marble Hornets is the college project tape and the fact that there's a little easter egg in one of the scenes, where the one guy is pumping gas. Alex Kralie's face on a missing sign can be seen as they pump gas on their drive through Alabama, stating that he'd been missing since March 2009. So that's a fun little tidbit of information that's supposedly now canonical to Marble Hornets.